Philip Glass Quotes
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
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There's one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that's Greg Norman. He's been incredible to me and all the great golfers.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
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I'm not graceful.
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Truth is a tendency.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
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I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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When you're pregnant you just want to be comfortable - but I wear more or less the same as I do when I'm not pregnant: pregnancy denim with normal tops and flat shoes. But when the belly starts to really stick out, I'll want the floaty dresses!
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They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.
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Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.
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In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with.
